image: This 3-to-4 cm sealed titanium button contains everything you need to monitor glucose concentrations inside the body and send the signal by wireless telemetry to a receiver. In successful operation for more than a year in pigs, this enzyme-based glucose sensor is a good candidate to replace cumbersome manual glucose testing for people with diabetes. This image relates to an article that appeared in the July 28, 2010, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. D.A. Gough of University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, Calif., and colleagues, is titled, "Comprehensive, Quantitative Mapping of T Cell Epitopes in Gluten in Celiac Disease." view more
Credit: Image C. Bickel/Science Translational Medicine © 2010 AAAS